Do you have trouble orgazing all of the research sources (journal articles, book chapters, websites) that you need for projects? Are you tired of manually typing up in-text citations and bibliographies? Save time and increase your productivity by using Zotero, a free bibliographic-manager tool for research literature management! Attend this workshop to learn the basics of getting started with this software.

Never heard of a bibliographic manager? Bibliographic management tools, like Zotero, help researchers of all levels—undergraduate, graduate, faculty and staff, and beyond—quickly download citation data and full-text copies of information sources from the internet, organize source records, easily insert auto-formatted citations during writing, and more. They are major time-savers. We often hear students say they wish they learned about Zotero sooner!

Zotero includes both desktop and cloud-based applications. The desktop software helps you organize your literature collection the same way as you would a music library, and the cloud version ensures that you can access your citations from anywhere. Automatically save articles to Zotero from the internet with a browser extension, organize them in your library, and use a plug-in during your writing process to automatically insert in-text citations and full bibliographies in MS Word and Google Docs.